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Is Las Vegas, NV tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Las Vegas, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Neither of the 2 utilities serving Las Vegas has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records.

Las Vegas Valley Water District, which serves the most people here, has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 43.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Las Vegas Valley Water District is very hard, 280 mg/L (16.4 grains per gallon). How it compares.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Las Vegas’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Las Vegas Valley Water District’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Las Vegas

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Nevada certifies.

The 3 labs Nevada certifies closest to Las Vegas, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Western Environmental Testing - Las Vegas

    Las Vegas, NV · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

    (775) 355-0202

  • ASSET Laboratories - Las Vegas

    Las Vegas, NV · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity

    (702) 307-2659

  • Veritas Laboratories

    Las Vegas, NV · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (702) 321-8315

All 52 certified labs for Nevada

ZIP codes in Las Vegas

Which ZIP codes are in Las Vegas: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: NDEP Laboratory Approval Status, drinking water parameters; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Las Vegas

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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